He Xin sat on the balcony of the hotel, bathed in the warm Mediterranean sun, and yawned lazily.

At the end of August, the climate in Venice is very pleasant, the temperature during the day is generally 245 degrees, and the night temperature is 178 degrees, and the sun is shining, and the sky is clear, which is like heaven for He Xin, who has just come out of the hot and humid tropical rainforest of 378 degrees every day.

In the early morning of the 25th, before the sky was bright, He Xin, who had just finished filming, set off from the estuary, bumpy all the way, once again experienced more than ten hours of mountain road circling, and caught a flight to the capital when the sun went down, and it was already midnight when he returned to his home in the capital for more than three hours.

Early the next morning, Sister Hong hurriedly pulled him up from the bed on the phone, and contacted Ning Hao's side for various matters before leaving, and then hurriedly boarded a flight to Europe in the afternoon.

I don't know what went wrong, this time they flew from the capital to Rome and then transferred to Venice, when they booked a non-connecting ticket, they had to queue up at Rome Fiumicino Airport to go through customs procedures, and then take their luggage and re-check their boarding passes, and they were busy for nearly four hours before boarding the latest flight to Venice, and they arrived at Venice Marco Polo Airport until the morning of the 27th local time.

As soon as he arrived at the hotel where he stayed, He Xin was so tired that he couldn't even speak, so he fell asleep, but Ning Hao and his mother put down their luggage and were still interested in pulling the same energetic female translator who came over this time to spend a high price to go out shopping together.

Strange to say, when I arrived at the hotel, I couldn't open my eyelids, and I was very sleepy. But I took a shower and lay on the bed, and I had a lot of dreams, and when I woke up, I saw that the time had just passed for more than an hour, and I lay down and fell asleep again, but I couldn't sleep anymore, so I had to get up from the bed, make a cup of tea, sit on the balcony to blow the sea breeze, bask in the sun, and then close my eyes and recuperate.

It was barely enough time for a cup of tea when the door was slammed.

As soon as He Xin opened the door, he saw Ning Hao and Sister Na standing at the door, oh no, from the cracks between them, I also saw a hip-hop dress, the translator who was temporarily invited at a high price. It's just that the girl is too short, and the goal is not very obvious.

"Why did you come back so soon?" He Xin looked at the time, it was less than two hours before and after.

Ning Hao sighed as he entered the door: "Everything is expensive to death, it's boring!"

As he spoke, he pointed to the little translator behind him and said, "And Gu Yuewan also said that most of the souvenirs bought here are wholesaled from the Yiwu Small Commodity Market." ”

"Xiaohu, really?" He Xin looked at Xiao Douding behind Ning Hao and said in surprise.

The translation of Xiaodouding was found by Ning Hao, and it is said that he was introduced by a buddy who specializes in English subtitles, or the ex-girlfriend of that buddy, both of whom graduated from Chinese universities outside Beijing.

When He Xin often saw her for the first time in the capital yesterday, he saw that she was a little girl in her early fifties who was about one meter tall and a little bit taller than her on her back, and she actually looked calm and relaxed, which was very impressive.

It's just that he heard Ning Hao call the other party Gu Yuewan, and thought that the other party's surname was Gu, so he shouted "Xiao Gu" to the other party with a smile, which caused the girl to roll her eyes for a while.

Later, I learned that the girl's surname is Hu, and her name is also very romantic called Lin Yu, Gu Yuewan is just someone's nickname, it is said that her ex-boyfriend from the Northeast who has broken up gave it, and it comes from the black language of the Northeast bandits, which translates to the meaning of "surnamed Hu".

After listening to it, He Xin was a little embarrassed, no matter how he said it, he was also from the Northeast, and he didn't know the black words of the Northeast bandits.

In fact, at the beginning, he asked this translator who was like a little bean ding, He Xin was a little reluctant, not only responsible for the other party's round-trip air tickets, food and lodging, but also had to pay an additional 1,000 yuan per day for labor fees, so that this trip would cost more than 30,000 yuan. It's better to go to the local area and ask an international student to be a translator temporarily.

However, Ning Hao is still more cautious about this, because when selling films, it also involves the translation of the text and whether there are traps in it, don't look at this little bean Ding is not good-looking, but he is amazing, not only does he know several foreign languages, but he has also worked in several multinational companies before, and he is very familiar with this kind of cross-border sales contract. Besides, although it costs a little more, after all, it is also a matter of knowing the roots, which is more reliable than those international students who don't know each other.

He Xin was still a little skeptical, but when he was transferring in Rome, he heard Xiao Douding arguing with the airline's ground staff about the transfer, and the kind of tongue that he couldn't understand a word of foreign language was called a slip. And this time, thanks to her, I was able to change to the fastest flight, otherwise they might still be stupidly waiting at Rome's Fiumicino airport, and it is hard to say whether they can catch the opening red carpet of the film festival at half past seven tonight.

"Of course it's true!"

Xiao Douding walked over, didn't forget to glance at Ning Hao, and said, "I have a friend who specializes in this kind of small commodity business in Milan, and he told me personally." The largest sales place of Yiwu small commodities abroad is Italy, they are also engaged in wholesale here, especially in tourist cities like Venice, the so-called souvenirs sold outside are Yiwu nine times out of ten, deceive foreigners, if we are fooled again, it will be too wrong!"

"So, the masks, handmade lace, glasswork, and wooden crafts here are also from Yiwu?" He Xin said busily.

He is a person who likes to buy souvenirs, and he did his homework online in advance before coming here this time.

"Didn't I tell you, nine times out of ten are wholesale from Yiwu, how much local production is, and expensive, now it's the era of globalization. Xiao Douding said impatiently.

As he spoke, he took out a booklet from his bag and threw it to He Xindao: "Boss, the film schedule you starred in doesn't seem to be very good!"

He Xin took a look at it, it was the official release of the film schedule. This schedule is similar in English and the Chinese language. In fact, Italian looks similar to English, but it can't be understood when combined, and for English, He Xin can only understand some simple words, and most of the time it depends on guessing.

He flipped through the film schedule, saw that the dense letters in it were a little spent, glanced at Xiao Douding, who was about to sit down on the balcony recliner at this time, and said secretly: Since you have spent so much money to hire a translator, why do you bother to do this!

Hurriedly stopped her and said, "Xiaohu, you help me find it, I can't understand it!"

Hearing He Xin's voice, Xiaodouzi supported the armrests of the recliner with both hands, and the action of sitting down first paused, and after hearing his words clearly, Shi Shiran still sat down, lying comfortably on the chair, closed his eyes and said: "The premiere is scheduled on September 1, and the premieres on the same day are Bertolucci, Emma Thompson, George Clooney, and Nicolas Cage." ”

After speaking, he let out a long sigh and said, "It's all the works of big names in Hollywood, and I don't know if anyone will pay attention to your this one by then?"

Bertolucci is a famous Italian director who developed in Hollywood, can be called a master of film, and his works are most familiar to domestic audiences that have won nine awards including the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director.

Although his new work this year was not shortlisted for the main competition unit, his reputation in Italy is equivalent to that of a national teacher in China.

The other two films are starring Hollywood stars and directors such as the Coen brothers and Ridley Scott.

As for the British films that are also shortlisted for the main competition unit, it is enough to rely on the name of the heroine Emma Thompson, the Oscar-winning actress.

To be able to premiere on the same day as the above four movies, I don't know if it is an honor or a sorrow? He Xin was stunned for a while, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

But he immediately asked, "What films did No. 3 premiere with?"

Compared with what he is most concerned about is what he invests with real money, the results of the screening are directly related to whether the film can be sold smoothly and how much it can be sold!

"The films shortlisted for the main competition unit include Takeshi Kitano and one that seems to be Russian, and there is ......"

Xiao Douding probably couldn't remember it a little, and waved his hand and said, "Anyway, it's all movies I haven't heard of, so I don't think it's much of a threat." ”

He Xin flipped through the booklet in his hand, there were a total of four films that premiered on September 3, two of which were shortlisted for the main competition unit and were specially marked, and the other two were other than the English names of the other films.

"First Letter ......"

"Yes, yes, this is an Iranian film. Xiao Douding listened to him read it out and said busily.

Probably except for the famous name of Takeshi Kitano, which premiered on the same day, the names of the directors of a Russian film and an Iranian film do not seem to be very famous.

He Xin and Ning Hao glanced at each other, and the two of them breathed a sigh of relief almost at the same time. He looked at the English translation of the name in the booklet again, and according to the superficial knowledge of phonetic transcription that he had learned in junior high school, he read "cause, cause......

Because for a long time, there was no cause to come out.

Translated as incense, the noun means incense, and the verb means to provoke. Xiao Douding, who was lying on the recliner, probably couldn't listen anymore, so he rarely took the initiative.

"Oh, it turns out that it was literally translated into English. He Xin nodded, glanced at Ning Hao, who wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and said, "Haozi, in fact, isn't it more accurate to translate it into a monk's fate or empty joy?"

"No, I think that's something, it sounds good. ”

As a film shortlisted for the competition unit against the current, the organizer arranged two rooms for them, in order to save money, they could only wronged Ning Hao and Sister Na, and dismantled the two of them, He Xin and Ning Hao in one room, and Sister Na and Xiao Douding translated Hulin in one room.

It wasn't until 5 p.m. that the four of them went to another hotel not far from the hotel to meet the crew and take a boat to Lido Island together to participate in the red carpet and opening ceremony at half past seven.

There were not many people who came this time, and the red carpet was attended by Li Miaoxue, Lin Jiaxin and photographer Huang Yuetai, and Zheng Yijian could not come over until before the premiere of the movie because of his work.

He Xin only regretted that the producer Guan Jinpeng did not come over because he was currently working overtime to catch up with the late stage of production, and there was no one to discuss. However, before leaving, I called He Xin once and told him that the people on the MK2 side would take the initiative to contact him during the film festival.

"Director Ning, hello!"

"Don't, Sister Miaoxue, it's still the same as before, just call me Xiao Ning. Ning Hao, who rarely changed into a black suit, shook hands with Li Miaoxue and said.

When Ning Hao came to Qingdao to visit the class, he was already familiar with everyone, but no one expected that the young man who often came to Huang Yuetai's side to ask for advice has now become a director whose works have been shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival.

"Ah Xin, I haven't congratulated you yet, you have become the boss!" Lin Jiaxin, who had already changed into a low-cut black dress, smiled at He Xin.

"What's the matter, it's just a leather bag company. This Guan Dao and Li Dao are both clear. ”

I hadn't seen her for months, and the girl seemed to be a little stronger again.

Maybe this girl was born in Canada, and she grew up drinking milk and eating beef, and this figure always looks stronger than the average actress, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, plus her skin is a little darker. I don't know why, every time I see her dressed like this, He Xin has the urge to pat her back with the fruit dew outside.

In fact, the red carpets of the three major European film festivals are all similar, except that the red carpet in Berlin is shorter and smaller, and Cannes is grand and full of rules, and Venice should be in between.

The scale of the red carpet also seems to be in line with the impact of the festival. Cannes, Venice and Berlin, the three major film festivals in Europe, are the most authoritative, famous and influential film festivals in the international A-category film festivals. But with an increasingly commercial twist, the Festival de Cannes has undoubtedly surpassed the latter two in terms of influence around the world.

The latter two, although always traditional, are the oldest, more artistic and avant-garde Venice Film Festival, and it is clear that they have always been able to overtake the youngest, politically and socially oriented Berlin Film Festival.

The first time to participate in the red carpet of a film festival of this specification, Ning Hao was the same as He Xin walking the red carpet in Berlin for the first time, with a nervous face, and said that he would walk together, but when He Xin was just halfway through, he was still waving to the surrounding fans and stopping for media reporters to take pictures, and he didn't pay attention to the goods that had walked quickly to the end of the red carpet.